Caleb Carr’s novel | |
The Alienist, was a blockbuster international bestseller and positioned its author as a modern master of the historical thriller | |
Now, Carr reaches back further, to the age of opium dens and Jack the Ripper, when fictional detective Sherlock Holmes made the science of murder as real as the gore on a killer’s hands | |
Foul Whisperings… | |
Mycroft Holmes’s encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for | |
Holyrood House to investigate the confounding and gruesome deaths of two young men—horrific incidents that took place with her highness in residence | |
The victims were crushed in a manner surpassing human power | |
And while recent attempts on her majesty’s life raise a number of possibilities, these intrigues also seem strangely connected to an act of evil that took place centuries earlier… … | |
Unnatural Deeds For indeed, the slaying of David Rizzio, music master and friend to | |
Now, the ghosts of Holyrood House are being reawakened by someone with a diabolical agenda of greed, madness, and terror as Holmes and Watson set out to trap a killer who is eager to rewrite history in blood... “Intriguing!” | |
Booklist “The Italian Secretary captivates.” | |
Publishers Weekly | |
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